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Lots of things change the brain (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), and one of these is music. At a time when school budgets are being slashed, with music and art the first to go, new insight has arrived about how music lessons strengthen the brain. When children learn to play a musical instrument, they strengthen a range of auditory skills, and these benefits last all through their lives, for as long as they continue to listen to music.read more

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But I don’t drink too much or take drugs, you say, so how could that be? But you may have a very common addiction–to bread.

CBS News quotes cardiologist William Davis as saying that modern wheat is a "perfect, chronic poison."

Like so many other foods, modern wheat is different from what was grown in the past. According to Davis, the wheat we eat today is "an 18-inch tall plant created by genetic research in the ’60s and ’70s."
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